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Please find attached *MY* build of the latest version of Koush's ClockworkMod Recovery for the Orange Barcelona/Huawei U8350. It is not officially supported by Koush, please do not bother him with support questions for this build.

I have tested it as much as I can, but I'm always open to any more constructive feedback. Please see one post down for a change log for THIS build.

To install:

Recovery Manager

Download the img file to your SD card, and then you can use the Recovery Manager application to install your recovery, note your device must be rooted to run Recovery Manager.

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Thanks for your work once again Sebastian. I was thinking of getting this phone but £99.99 + £10 top up is really a bit too much. A bit lower and Orange might have had another OSF. How does performance compare to the OSF / Blade?

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Its not AS bad as people are making out, its a nice little device, but your right it is slightly over priced, Id wait and see if Orange drop it...

I've not really had a chance to play with it, the usual Orange bloat is quite nasty, they have replaced the launcher with a custom one that's REALLY not helping... I've got a nice unbranded ROM in the works, but I'm having problems with the SIM lock on it.. I think I'm close to working out how to remove that from the device..

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Its not AS bad as people are making out, its a nice little device, but your right it is slightly over priced, Id wait and see if Orange drop it...

I've not really had a chance to play with it, the usual Orange bloat is quite nasty, they have replaced the launcher with a custom one that's REALLY not helping... I've got a nice unbranded ROM in the works, but I'm having problems with the SIM lock on it.. I think I'm close to working out how to remove that from the device..

Sebastian to remove the simlock use DC-Unlocker, The Huawei U8350 detects as a U8150/Smart as they both have same kernal i believe. I cant remember how i got into fastboot but i think its red button vol up and on button. But I can confirm ive unlocked here.

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Sebastian to remove the simlock use DC-Unlocker, The Huawei U8350 detects as a U8150/Smart as they both have same kernal i believe. I cant remember how i got into fastboot but i think its red button vol up and on button. But I can confirm ive unlocked here.

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I managed to get root using superone click and followed your steps above to install recovery etc. I would be really interested in trying out your unbranded rom. Is it anywhere near ready to beta test yet?

Cheers

Andy

I've not really had a chance to play with it, the usual Orange bloat is quite nasty, they have replaced the launcher with a custom one that's REALLY not helping... I've got a nice unbranded ROM in the works, but I'm having problems with the SIM lock on it.. I think I'm close to working out how to remove that from the device..

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I spent ages removing the ugly orange bloatware, the splash logos etc and the device did seem quite a bit zippier. I made one mistake though, i did a factory reset and clear cache to see how it performed. I had forgotten that i had blown away the orange home / launcher app - this stopped the device from booting.

I was about to load up the original orange UK firmware from :http://wiki.modaco.c..._Firmware_U8350 and instead thought i would take a look at the Kenya Normal one. WOW what a difference the rom is much faster than the orange one - really noticably quicker!! No nasty bloat, no branding whatsoever. The only minor issue i did have was the symbol key didnt appear to work in googlemail, this was fixed by unticking android keyboard under the settings/keyboard.

A nice stock froyo that seems (so far) to be working perfectly!! The phone is sooo much better.

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Does this mean it's now SIM-unlocked..? (ie. phone works with other SIM cards, not just Orange UK)

Cheers.

I spent ages removing the ugly orange bloatware, the splash logos etc and the device did seem quite a bit zippier. I made one mistake though, i did a factory reset and clear cache to see how it performed. I had forgotten that i had blown away the orange home / launcher app - this stopped the device from booting.

I was about to load up the original orange UK firmware from :http://wiki.modaco.c..._Firmware_U8350 and instead thought i would take a look at the Kenya Normal one. WOW what a difference the rom is much faster than the orange one - really noticably quicker!! No nasty bloat, no branding whatsoever. The only minor issue i did have was the symbol key didnt appear to work in googlemail, this was fixed by unticking android keyboard under the settings/keyboard.

A nice stock froyo that seems (so far) to be working perfectly!! The phone is sooo much better.

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I havent had chance to test. But i would expect the device to be locked to the provider still.

My device was was provided by OrangeUK and is still working great without the orange bloat. I have tested 2G, 3G, GPS, Roaming between OrangeUK TmobileUK all work great. Corporate mail works fine - the orange version seemed to have a tendancy to drop the account settings randomly (I have experienced it doing this on 8 of the 20+ device work have bought recently).

The only application i wouldnt mind getting back was the orange signal booster / UMA / HD voice application. Not sure if there is a way to decompile the orange image or whether i will have to flash the image to copy out the relevent apps.

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I havent had chance to test. But i would expect the device to be locked to the provider still.

My device was was provided by OrangeUK and is still working great without the orange bloat. I have tested 2G, 3G, GPS, Roaming between OrangeUK TmobileUK all work great. Corporate mail works fine - the orange version seemed to have a tendancy to drop the account settings randomly (I have experienced it doing this on 8 of the 20+ device work have bought recently).

The only application i wouldnt mind getting back was the orange signal booster / UMA / HD voice application. Not sure if there is a way to decompile the orange image or whether i will have to flash the image to copy out the relevent apps.

Andy

I have unlocked my Barcelona and I am using the Kenya Normal ROM. I am on Vodafone UK and it all seems to work. The phone is instantly more responsive anduseable. I use Launcher Pro and it is very smooth. With CWM and root this is a real winner.

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I havent had chance to test. But i would expect the device to be locked to the provider still.

My device was was provided by OrangeUK and is still working great without the orange bloat. I have tested 2G, 3G, GPS, Roaming between OrangeUK TmobileUK all work great. Corporate mail works fine - the orange version seemed to have a tendancy to drop the account settings randomly (I have experienced it doing this on 8 of the 20+ device work have bought recently).

The only application i wouldnt mind getting back was the orange signal booster / UMA / HD voice application. Not sure if there is a way to decompile the orange image or whether i will have to flash the image to copy out the relevent apps.

Andy

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Looking forward to a custom ROM, however, I am wondering if IDEOS custom ROMS can be used as a basis for this phone. As far as I can see they are the same boards but the IDEOS has a proximity \ ambient light sensor and the U8350 has a keyboard.

I have unzipped FusionIDEOS and the huawei IME is missing and it is quite a leap of faith as the updater writes to /custom which I can't backup in nandroid.

I will do a bit more research but this could fasttrack CM6 and CM7 onto this phone.